Improvement in sample-cards



s. KUTNOW. Sample-Card;

No. 206,461; Patented July-30. I878.-

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SIGISMUND KUTNOYV, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAM PLE-CARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 206,461, dated July 30, 1878; application filed February 23, 1878.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIGISMUND KUTNOW, of the city and county of San Francisco, and State of California, have invented a Combined Sample-Pattern and Business-Card; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

My invention relates to a card for exhibitin g patterns of clothing, and also a sample or samples of cloth suitable to be made into artieles of clothing of the particular patterns represented, the whole combined with the business-card of the merchant tailor or dealer in cloths.

These cards are intended more especially for soliciting purposes-for instance, for the traveling solicitor of a clothing-house or tailorin g establishment, or as exhibition-samples for wholesale cloth-houses, and it enables the solicitor or merchant to represent, in connection with his business-card, the exact style of wearing-apparel for which the cloth represented by the sample is adapted.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, let A represent a sheet of card-board, having the business'card of a firm on its upper end. On this card or sheet of card-board, below the business-card, I paste or otherwise attach one or more printed patterns, B, of clothing; or the patterns could be printed directly upon the cardboard. To the card-board, below the business-card, I attach one edge of a cloth or other sample, C, so that the sample falls over the pattern or patterns and covers them; or it could be made smaller, if preferred.

I am aware that patterns and samples have heretofore been attached to the same card or sheet of paper; but they were difierently arranged and attached. In such cases the sample was quite small, and the pattern was pasted over the sample, so as to fasten it to the paper or card, leaving both exposed; but my sample forms a leaf that falls over the patterns, and is large enough to almost cover the lower part of the sheet. I use rivets or other metal fastenings E for securing the sample-to the 

